“No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
Source: This Side of Paradise
Source: This Side of Paradise
“No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
Source: This Side of Paradise
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
On Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Bono: The Rolling Stone Interview (2017)
Context: These last two albums mix up the personal and the political so that you don't know which one you're talking to. That's a kind of magic trick, and realizing that of course all the problems that we find in the exterior world are just manifestations of what we, you know, what we hold inside of us, in our interior worlds. The biggest fucker, the biggest asshole, the biggest, the most sexist we can be, the most selfish, mean, cunning, all those characters you are going to see them in the mirror. And that is where the job of transformation has to start first. Is that not what experience tells us?
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
Ned Rorem, Paris Diary (1966)
Helen Reddy (1941) Australian actress
On her connection to the stage
Freeman interview (September 2012)
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
"Kevin Malone", New Terrors (1980), ed. Ramsey Campbell, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For
#124, "...A Rolling Donut" (1991), collected in DTWOF: The Sequel (1992).
Dykes to Watch Out For
“When you're with the person you love, you're home.”
Susan Wiggs (1958) American writer
Source: The Winter Lodge
Wole Soyinka Death and the King's Horseman
Death and the King's Horseman (1975); cited from Six Plays (London: Methuen, 1984) p. 189.